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Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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I would not open windows into men's souls.
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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
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As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.
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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
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... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.
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[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.
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I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.
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I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.
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Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
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I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
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God forgive you, but I never can.
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I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
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[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
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Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
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[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.
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